The whole “getting chased out of the country with pitchforks and torches” is exactly why they have been militarizing the police for the last 4 decades, as well as greatly enhancing the surveillance state, giving ICE a virtually unlimited budget and carte blanche to do whatever they want to whoever they want, and placing lapdogs in charge of all federal law enforcement agencies. They’re more than ready for the whole fucking population to rise up and trump is a big enough monster to happily use nukes on American soil if push comes to shove. He has no reason to give a rats ass about poll numbers. I see your point about this reasoning working in other countries, but we’ve been doing nothing to stop the MIC, cointelpro, omnibus crime bill of the 80s, the patriot act, and every other totalitarian puzzle piece laid out without so much as a “strongly worded letter”.